Music Terms and Signs – Grade 2

The Syllabus includes Terms and Signs

for the ABRSM, Trinity Guild Hall, Unisa and Rock School Examinations.

The Grade 2 syllabus includes everyhing in Grade 1, including music terms and signs, with the addition of:

1] Simple time signatures of two two, three two, four two, three eight, and the grouping of notes and rests within these times.

Triplets, and triplet note groups with rests. Questions will include the composition of simple fourbar rhythms starting on the first beat of the bar and using a given opening.

2] Extension of the stave to include two ledger lines below and above each stave.

3] Composition: Questions will include the composition of simple four bar rhythms starting on the first beat of the bar and using a given opening.

4] Extension of the stave to include two ledger lines below and above each stave.

5] Construction of the minor scale (harmonic or melodic at candidate’s choice, but candidates will be expected to know which form they are using). Scales and key signatures of the major keys of A, Bb and Eb, and the minor keys of A, E and D, with their tonic triads (root position), Degrees of the scale (number only), and intervals above the tonic (by number only).